An ivory netsuke of a sitting tiger, licking its right paw

Description:

Japan, 18th/early 19th cent.
H. 3,1 cm, B. 3,5 cm
Powerfully carved ivory netsuke with a beautiful golden yellow age patina.
From an old private collection in the Rhineland, collected before 1985, coll. no. 10 -
The EU trade certificate for the sale of this lot is available - Traces of wear, age crack in the back